I have a half-gallon of whole milk in the refrigerator that doesn’t have many more days of life left, I think. I bought the gallon to make rice pudding, but now I’ve got all of this left over milk. Aside from making another double-batch of rice pudding, or eating cereal three meals a day for the next three days, what can I do with that much milk?
And, because it’s a funny word to say: milk milk milk milk milk milk milk!
My go-to recipe to use up milk is custard. Easy to make, easy to eat.
Only a half gallon? I could easily drink that in two days, but assuming you’re not a big milk drinker…
Hot chocolate or some variety of latte?
Something that needs a roux (I’d make a mac & cheese casserole)?
Another idea: chowder. Clam or Corn or Bacon or whatever. Yum yum chowder.
Yogurt? You need really only a warm place to encourage it, or a big thermos, and a container of plain yogurt to get it started. There are plenty of instructions online, which is how I used up a lot of extra milk a while back.
Or, easy but more ‘exotic’, make Indian paneer cheese, all you need is a big pan and lemon juice to make the curds, strain them through cheesecloth, and press.
Instructions also online!
Biscuits and gravy
Mac -n- cheese
Fill the rest with water and get a whole gallon of half milk?
Fill it with cream and get a whole lot of half and half?
Milk-braised pork shoulder. There’s a number of different recipes out there for it, but the one I do is a simple version with milk, sage, salt, and pepper (like the linked-to recipe.) It is divine, but it will take a few hours to make, for the milk to cook down, curdle, and basically caramelize. While this dish can be done with loin (and I believe the traditional Italian preparation is loin), shoulder stands up best, in my opinion, to the long cooking.
Milksicles. My family made these during the winter as cinnamon left from the other Christmas items was placed at the bottom of the popsicle molds.
Buy a bag of Oreos. Eat with the milk.
I had the same problem over the weekend, as well as some stale bread – I made bread pudding.
Jormungandr, milksicles sound pretty good!
Well, with sufficient cloning technology… a cow?
I have to agree with Patty O’Furniture. It’s not “all of this leftover milk”, it’s “Only half a gallon left? I better get to the store.”
Try this:
Pour a glass of milk. Don’t drink it yet, put it on a shelf in the refrigerator to stay cold. Rinse your mouth with an antiseptic mouthwash for as long as you can stand it. Immediately get the glass of milk from the refrigerator and drink it. It makes the milk taste really cold and slightly sweet. Absolute heaven.
Unless you don’t like milk, in which case it may be absolute torture.
Make a giant tuna casserole or mac-and-cheese casserole, both of which are based on white sauce. Use the milk as the basis for the homemade white sauce.
Mac-n-chee, biscuits with sausage gravy, glass of milk with cookies… endless possibilities.
I am definitely checking out that milk braised pork recipe. Wow!
Eggnog for the holidays.
My vote is for biscuits and gravy. We’ve already had a gravy thread!
~VOW
Pour a glass of milk.
Set it next to a large slice of German chocolate cake.
Repeat as necessary.
You can add it to your bath water with some honey, take a milk bath like Cleopatra.
Potato soup. Lots of milk, potatoes and onions, and (heaven help me) Velveeta.
Of course you can always just mix it with Kahlua or Irish Cream and drink up.